On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:50 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:38:15 -0700 (PDT)
> Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > Yeah the fastpath vs. slow path is not the issue as Siddha and I
> > concluded earlier. Seems that we are mainly seeing cacheline bouncing
> > due to two cpus accessing meta data in the same page struct. The
> > patches in MM that are scheduled to be merged for .24 address
>
>
> Ok every time something says anything not 100% positive about SLUB you
> come back with "but it's fixed in the next patch set"... *every time*.
>
> To be honest, to me that sounds that SLUB isn't ready for prime time
> yet, or at least not ready to be the only one in town...
>
> The day that the answer is "the kernel.org slub is fixing all the
> issues" is when it's ready..
Arjan, to be honest, there has been some confusion on _what_ code has
been tested with what results. And with Christoph not able to reproduce
these results locally, it is very hard for him to fix it proper.
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